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Cutlets, Breaded, with Bacon

Breaded meat cutlets served with fried bacon and fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cutlets, Breaded, with Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Brush the chops or cutlets with warm butter.

  2. Roll them in bread crumbs seasoned with pepper and sage or sweet herbs.

  3. Press the crumbs firmly onto the meat.

Cook and serve

  1. Grill or broil the cutlets until cooked through.

  2. Cut the bacon into two-inch lengths and fry until crispy.

  3. Serve the bacon on pieces of fried bread around the cutlets.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + sagetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chops or cutlets
The meat forms the main body of the dish and is cooked through by grilling or broiling.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that holds seasoning and shields the meat.
Warm butter
Helps the crumbs adhere and adds fat that promotes browning and richness.
Bacon
Adds salty, smoky fat and crisp texture to the plate.

The step that matters

Press the crumbs firmly onto the meat. Loose crumbs fall off during cooking. Firm pressure packs them into the buttered surface so the coating stays attached and browns evenly.

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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